Early beginnings Warken joined the CDU in 2002. From 2006 to 2014, she served as deputy chair of the
Young Union (JU), the CDU's youth organization, under the leadership of its chairman
Philipp Mißfelder.
Member of the German Parliament, 2013–present Warken first became member of the Bundestag after the
2013 German federal election. She lost her seat in the
2017 German federal election, but was the first in line if a
Member for
Baden-Württemberg resigned. This happened on 23 November 2018, when
Stephan Harbarth was elected President of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. She took her seat on 5 December 2018. In parliament, Warken has served on the Committee on Internal Affairs (2013–2017; 2020–2025), the Committee on European Affairs (2018), the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (2018–2025), and the parliamentary monitoring group for the
COVID-19 pandemic in Germany (2021–2022). On the Committee on Internal Affairs, she was her parliamentary group's
rapporteur on
volunteering, civil protection and
disaster response. In the negotiations to form a
coalition government under the leadership of
Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann following the
2021 state elections, Warken co-chaired the working group on integration, alongside Manfred Lucha. From 2022 to 2025, Warken also served on the German Parliament's body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the
Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the
Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the
Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the
Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the
Federal Social Court (BSG). From 2022 to 2023, Warken co-chaired – alongside
Johannes Fechner – the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work. Since 2023, Warken has been serving as Secretary General of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, under the leadership of chairman
Manuel Hagel. In the negotiations to form a
Grand Coalition of
Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian
CSU) and the
Social Democratic Party (SPD) following the
2025 German elections, Warken was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration, led by
Günter Krings,
Andrea Lindholz and
Dirk Wiese. Also since 2025, Warken has been leading the Christian Democrats’ Women's Union; in this capacity, she is part of the CDU’s national board. == Other activities ==